Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/11

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Subject: [Leica] Cosona 15 & 25 MTF
From: Mikiro Mori <arbos@silva.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 21:39:03 +0200

Hi, Luggers interested in Cosina lenses.

Cosina publishes MTF charts for the two LTM lenses. Since I cannot find any
web sites showing them, I list some of the values.

15 mm at f4.5/infinity (0mm, 10mm, 20mm from center)
(10 lp/mm) 0.98/0.98, 0.95/0.92, 0.9/0.8
(20 lp/mm) 0.92/0.92, 0.88/0.8, 0.8/0.5
(40 lp/mm) 0.85/0.85, 0.7/0.55, 0.6/0.3

No significant increases at f8.
These values are close to those of Hologon 16/8 for Contax G.

25 mm at f 4/infinity (0mm, 10mm, 20mm from center)
(10 lp/mm) 0.96/0.96, 0.92/0.92, 0.85/0.75
(20 lp/mm) 0.9/0.9, 0.85/0.85, 0.6/0.7
(40 lp/mm) 0.8/0.8, 0.6/0.65, 0.45/0.4

At f8, contrast values for 20 and 40 lp/mm somewhat increase in the periphery.

Of course, MTF is not everything. ;-)

Mikiro
Strasbourg